Quotes about Introspection

I admit this is very hard to accept emotionally, especially if we have had years and years of explaining our misery in the name of circumstance or someone else's behavior. But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed ? but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Look in the mirror. You must first love yourself before you can receive true love from someone else.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.

Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of statiny who you are.

Don't compare yourself with other people, compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.